I'm so sorry I'm not blogging more

It’s a blog cliche that every blogger needs an occasional: I’ve been really busy and havn’t been blogging, but I swear I’ll get back to it post.

I did mine a few weeks ago. It was pretty much word for word what you just read. But today kim mentioned I havn’t been blogging much and I should rectify that. I know I havn’t and I’ve been trying to come up with why so I could explain it.

Basically it comes down to audience. The only blogging I’ve done with any regularity is tweets, which is stream of consciousness blogging that I really only intend for people who mildly care about my stream of consciousness. I can say whatever I want there because it isn’t filtered: it’s tiny spurts of daily activity.

I have a lot of stuff I want to say:

8 Diagrams from Wu Tang Clan is coming out and it’s making me feel excited and pathetic and old at the same time.

Obama’s Foreign Policy + Edwards Populism + Clintons Political Saavy = Super Candidate!

Man the republican candidates are weak.

I wonder if zoe is ever going to sleep again.

I was almost over Halo 3, then Matt drug me back in.

Billy Elliot is a surprisingly good movie.

Eminem is a shockingly good rapper, it’s a shame he’s gotten so complacent.

I don’t get the Jay-Z hype.

Reading about the spanish civil war. It really drives home how little substantive difference there is between american political parties.

Amateurs think strategy, Professionals think logistics: Why your build system is incredibly important.

I heart objected oriented programming.

I really want a BMW 328ic. If you’re shopping for xmas gifts there you go.

Each one of those could be a blog entry, but who really cares? I can find an audience of people who care about the technical stuff, same with the music, and same with the political stuff. But I can’t focus on any one of those long enough to build up enough of an audience that it would energize me to do it. Looking at that list though I could clearly just twitter them, and maybe thats the way to go: Twitter everything and only break stuff out into full blog posts if I’m really inspired.

Can I repost these too twitter or is that bad form?

The other option is just to write whatever I want audience be damned. I think i might do that, because I enjoy writing. And you might have to suffer through a lot of stuff you don’t want. Maybe I’ll spin it off into another blog and for purely schulz family stuff use schulzone, but for the random missives use the new one. Hmmm…..

Brainstorming here, who knows what I’ll actually do.

Maybe nothing.

probably nothing.

Nerd it out

My halo 3 avatar, currently sitting at a lifetime 160 kills to 291 deaths.

I know, I know

O RLY?

Hmmm Plants

It appears I’m an internet Omnivore

Members of this group use their extensive suite of technology tools to do an enormous range of things online, on the go, and with their cell phones. Omnivores are highly engaged with video online and digital content. Between blogging, maintaining their Web pages, remixing digital content, or posting their creations to their websites, they are creative participants in cyberspace.

Yeah me?

The complete list

My mom was keeping track of what she sent me.

The final installment was really cool: 30 pictures of me when I was a little kid. A good mix of pictures I’ve never seen and iconic images of my youth (I’m thinking especially of me on my mighty might). All the pictures are dated too. So me and kyra compared her at three to me at three (Turns out Kyras hair isn’t nearly as light as mine was also she’s much cuter).

And thats my mom’s blog.

Josh's Half A**ed Birthday Extravaganza!

People,

On April 5th, 2007 I will turn 30 years old. Because this is a large round number it traditionally results in some sort of formal celebration. However due to that special magic blend of procrastination and lethargy that I’ve refined so well I never actually made plans. And kim was kind enough to mention that any plans, formal or otherwise, I want to make need to be made immediately to have any hope whatsoever of being successful so I have put some thought into it and come up with the following:

Since it is my birthday I can pretty much do whatever I want. I have decided that what I really want to do is drink beer, watch baseball, and slip and slide. And because I have reached a certain age and level of achievement it well within my powers to do these things on my birthday.

So on April 1st (sunday, opening day) starting in the afternoon (lets say after 1 for everybody who really needs that kind of information) I am going to drink beer and slip and slide. At 5:05 I will watch the cardinals mets game. You are all invited.

Questions:

1. Should we bring anything? It seems like beer would be good, or non beer if you don’t like that kind of thing. Also: Bring snacks if you want them.

2. This seems a little half baked, you’re just too lazy to plan something right? Yes.

3. What are we having for dinner? See question 2. At some point I will say something to the effect of “I desire food” and people will be dispatched to get food from somewhere. Take several seconds here to glare at luke for having the temerity to not be able to legally drive.

4. So you’re not going to have anything ready in advance? See question 2. Correct. I will have beer. And maybe chips. And a cake from costco because I walk by their cakes everytime we go to costco and think: I want one of those. And since it’s my birthday: I will.

5. Be at your house at 1pm? No. Starting around 1pm me and kyra will set up the slip and slide. You are welcome at any point but should feel under no obligation to be on time. 4 hours of slip and slide is a little hard core, and followed by 3 hours of baseball is going to be a little much for many people and you are certainly under no obligation to be there the whole time.

6. You don’t have cable: How are you going to watch a baseball game on tv? MLB premium one month subscription. Not to worry.

7. Should we bring gifts? Excellent question! No. For my birthday this year I would like everyone to buy themselves a gift and tell me how awesome it is. For example: Luke is going to buy himself heelys so he can teach cassady how to do it. This is a particularly good example because both luke and cassady get something. While I don’t expect you to live up to lukes high standards of generosity you should take the money you would normally waste on me and instead waste it on yourself.

8. I find myself in an exotic location, say Peoria Illinois, and thus unable to attend. Why are you bothering me? Even if you are not able to physically attend you could still be there in spirit by say: Drinking a beer and watching baseball, or eating cake, or thinking “Happy Birthday Josh”

9. Will there be swimming at JHABE? Possible. Kyra and I may swim. Anyone is welcome to try.

10. Lists are better when they end in round numbers aren’t they? Yes.

See you sunday!

josh

Thats odd

Conversation with Kim yesterday:

kim: Last night you fell asleep on the floor while I was playing video games.
josh: Weird. Talk about roll reversal.
kim: Yeah, it was too weird, I had to quit and go to bed.

In which I prove I am the center of the univers

Because someone has gone through the trouble of creating a picture that shows it.

Truly I am at the center of the world.

2007 Resolutions

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My resolutions for 2006 were to run a 5k in under thirty minutes and to get a front page digg story. The digg thing was easy, but the 5k turned out to be harder.

I ran the New Years Day 5k on the first. I ended up finishing in 34:20. I don’t think the problem was entirely physical: I ended the run tired but not dying, I think it was mostly a pacing problem on my part. I didn’t have a good sense of how fast I was capable of pushing myself so I waited until it was too late to speed up.

So my 2007 New Years resolution is : Run a 5k in under 30 minutes.

The picture is me running over to give Kyra high 5, It was right by the end of the race and Kyra was cheering and clapping for me (See this picture for example).

Compound Stupidity

Friday evening, driving home from work, radio on loud, movie night plans (Dance with Dora!), everything is right in the world.

Except I have to go to traffic school in the morning (a month ago I got a ticket from photo radar on the 101) a waste 8 hours of my weekend.

And my ticket is on my desk.

You need your ticket in your hands when you attend traffic school.

Expletive deleted.

I don’t have a key to the office. It’s friday afternoon. There was beer in the office on friday on account of it was the companies 8th birthday. People aren’t sticking around. I’ll call somebody and have them grab it. I know somebody who lives really close to me. No problem.

Except I don’t have a phone. Kim’s is broken (sometimes people can’t hear her). So she has mine, I have nothing. I am 2/3 of the way home (and I have no idea what my work phone number is so pay phone is out of the question). Gotta get home, call and get my ticket out of there so I can spend 8 hours in traffic school. Got to hurry before everybody leaves.

I start to wonder what would happen if I miss traffic school. How would the court react? How would the court even know? For that matter how does the court know I’m taking traffic school tomorrow? Simple: The form that came with the ticket that you mail to them telling them when your class is.

The form that is still in the ticket on my desk. The one that says mail before your court date or your license will be suspended and a warrant for your arrest will be issued. I’ve been watching OZ so the idea of being on the wrong side of law enforcement terrifies me..

My court date was two days prior.

Multiple Expletives deleted.

So now what? Do I got to traffic school (assuming I can get my hands on the ticket) only to find out it’s all for nothing waste 8 hours and $120 bucks and hope I can plead my way out of it on monday when the court is open? Or do I enjoy my last weekend of freedom and start brushing up on my jail survival skills?

I am an optimist by nature so I decide I’ll try for it. I get home, get a phone call of and !miracles! i get through to someone, he rooted through my desk and found the ticket. Me and Kyra cancelled dancing with Dora and instead made some pepperoni pizzas (Side Note: I love pepperoni pizza, and always order it. Kyra orders it because I do, then picks off the peperroni because she doesn’t like the taste. She calls them peppernoni. But this time she actually ate some of the pepperoni.), got some ice cream, and picked up my ticket. I went to traffic school only to recieve the stern warning that you can only attend traffic school once every two years. And they don’t check eligibility when you register (or before you pay).

And, well, I took traffic school 6 months ago online from California. So nobody knows I’m here and I’m ineligible to take it anyway. Things are not looking good. I start wondering how gang recruitment works, and if it’s shamefully transparent you’re just joining for protection.

So this morning I called the Scottsdale courts and pleaded my case, and I learned two interesting things: That’s two years in the state of Arizona. California courts are different. And when you sign up for traffic school they automatically let the court know. Everything worked out.

Deep sigh of relief.